How did the high school football season go overall?
“As a team it was actually pretty amazing, especially considering that before the season started we were predicted to go 4th in our league and we ended up with a district championship and were runner ups in the state championship game. For me personally my expectations going in was that I wouldn’t play a lot because of the talent I had in front of me guys like Nicky Chimienti, Malachi Bowman, Tyress Fuller, and Nyeem Sims. I was a little disappointed when opportunities opened up and I couldn’t capitalize because I fractured my ankle the second week into the season keeping me out until about the midway point of the year. Then when I came back a freak accident a week later while fracturing C2 and C3 vertebrae is what put me out for the rest of the year.”
What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“This off-season, I decided to not play any sports and to focus on football and getting bigger, stronger, and faster to secure a starting spot on my opinion one of the best defenses in the state of PA.”
What are you trying to improve on the most as a player?
“As I said previously, I want to get bigger, stronger, and faster off the field but on the field there are three big things I want to focus on getting better at. One being reading offenses in-case I ever need to make the transition to safety from corner. Another being playing the ball in the air because I feel like that and shaving .3 seconds off my 40-yard dash will make my man to man coverage a problem for any receiver I’ll play. Lastly, I want to work on my open field tackling, because right now I feel like I’m way too aggressive and it causes me to miss way too many tackles.”
How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“Since 8th grade, I felt that our 2021 year will be the best year Central Dauphin has seen in a while. Of course, that’ll be difficult, due to the success of our team this year, but I think if any squad can do it this team can. We have so many returning players and more importantly up and coming players that I feel will help us stay on top of district 3 and even compete for a state championship again.”
Who do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule next season?
“Every year, we play so many great teams, but if I had to pick one team that I think will give us the best game I’d have to say State College because they’re bringing back so many really good players.”
Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“It’s always been a dream of mine to play football in college, hopefully D1.”
What colleges have been recruiting you?
“I’ve talked to a few big schools because of my camp and 7 on 7 performances, but I wouldn’t say any schools are recruiting seeing as though I don’t have any in-game varsity film.”
Have you made any college trips yet?
“I haven’t made any trips yet, but I did get lucky enough to have those opportunities presented to me. I turned a lot of them down because of 7 on 7 and camps.”
Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“This summer, I’ll be attending a camp at WVU and Coastal Carolina so hopefully I can perform well enough that they’ll invite to visit their University.”
Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Growing up, I loved rooting for the teams everyone hated so living in PA the most hated college was Ohio State. That naturally just became my favorite college.”
“As a team it was actually pretty amazing, especially considering that before the season started we were predicted to go 4th in our league and we ended up with a district championship and were runner ups in the state championship game. For me personally my expectations going in was that I wouldn’t play a lot because of the talent I had in front of me guys like Nicky Chimienti, Malachi Bowman, Tyress Fuller, and Nyeem Sims. I was a little disappointed when opportunities opened up and I couldn’t capitalize because I fractured my ankle the second week into the season keeping me out until about the midway point of the year. Then when I came back a freak accident a week later while fracturing C2 and C3 vertebrae is what put me out for the rest of the year.”
What are your plans now with sports and workouts?
“This off-season, I decided to not play any sports and to focus on football and getting bigger, stronger, and faster to secure a starting spot on my opinion one of the best defenses in the state of PA.”
What are you trying to improve on the most as a player?
“As I said previously, I want to get bigger, stronger, and faster off the field but on the field there are three big things I want to focus on getting better at. One being reading offenses in-case I ever need to make the transition to safety from corner. Another being playing the ball in the air because I feel like that and shaving .3 seconds off my 40-yard dash will make my man to man coverage a problem for any receiver I’ll play. Lastly, I want to work on my open field tackling, because right now I feel like I’m way too aggressive and it causes me to miss way too many tackles.”
How do you feel your team will do next football season?
“Since 8th grade, I felt that our 2021 year will be the best year Central Dauphin has seen in a while. Of course, that’ll be difficult, due to the success of our team this year, but I think if any squad can do it this team can. We have so many returning players and more importantly up and coming players that I feel will help us stay on top of district 3 and even compete for a state championship again.”
Who do you feel will be the toughest competition on your schedule next season?
“Every year, we play so many great teams, but if I had to pick one team that I think will give us the best game I’d have to say State College because they’re bringing back so many really good players.”
Do you want to play sports in college? If so, which one?
“It’s always been a dream of mine to play football in college, hopefully D1.”
What colleges have been recruiting you?
“I’ve talked to a few big schools because of my camp and 7 on 7 performances, but I wouldn’t say any schools are recruiting seeing as though I don’t have any in-game varsity film.”
Have you made any college trips yet?
“I haven’t made any trips yet, but I did get lucky enough to have those opportunities presented to me. I turned a lot of them down because of 7 on 7 and camps.”
Do you have plans for more trips soon?
“This summer, I’ll be attending a camp at WVU and Coastal Carolina so hopefully I can perform well enough that they’ll invite to visit their University.”
Did you have a favorite college growing up?
“Growing up, I loved rooting for the teams everyone hated so living in PA the most hated college was Ohio State. That naturally just became my favorite college.”